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Iwish to comment on Michelle Tusan’s arti- cle “The Armenian Genocide and Foreign Policy” (Summer 2014 Forum), which is
really about U.S. foreign policy. Tusan asserts
that “the notion of honor in foreign affairs runs
deep in the American psyche.” She then concedes that “the principle also fails in practice,”
as illustrated by the British and U.S. response
to the 1915 killing of more than 1 million Armenian civilians by the Ottomans. Despite the
outrage and the documented evidence of war
crimes, little was done by the U.S.

The final two paragraphs of the article jumpto the recent efforts of U.S. foreign policy inthe area of “human rights and humanitarianinterventions.” Selecting Hillary Clinton andJohn Kerry as representatives of this newtrend, Tusan comes full circle and views thispositive development as the result of “honor-able sentiments [that] come from an age-oldI commend Professor Tusan for her frequentuse of the expression “Armenian Genocide”(preferable to Armenian “brutalities” or“barbarities”), but let it be noted that althoughRaphael Lemkin, the international jurist whocreated the term “genocide” in 1944, applied itfirst to the Armenians1, sixty-nine U.S. schol-ars, on May 19, 1985, called on Congress not toadopt a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. 2

In 2007 and 2009-10, H. Res.106 3 and H.

Res.252 4 or the Affirmation of the United
States Record on the Armenian Genocide
Resolution were introduced but never enacted. In 2008, presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton did indeed believe that “the horrible
events perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire
against Armenians constitute a clear case
of genocide,” 5 but in 2010, then Secretary
of State Clinton claimed that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the
U.S. “opens a door that is a very dangerous
one to go through,” and promised that she
would “work very hard to make sure it [the
House Resolution] does not go to the House
floor.” 6 During his confirmation hearing as
Secretary of State, 7 John Kerry also carefully
avoided using the term “genocide” after he
had called for an international recognition
of the Armenian Genocide in 2004 - when
he was running for president. 8

Forty-three of our fifty states recognize
the events of 1915-23 as genocide9 but the
nation as a whole still cannot: the “notion
of honor” apparently “runs deep” in our
people’s psyche, but not in our foreign
affairs.